“ERA Reardon Cares” Helps Area Essential Workers

ERA Reardon Realtor Meredythe Hill-VanDusen helps deliver meals from 308 Brass Rail Bar and Grill during a free lunch event Monday. Photos by Jeff Steers, JTV.

By Jeff Steers
JTV News

(March 30, 2020 3:18 PM) ERA Reardon Chief Sales Officer Matt Mansfield told his sales staff to “go out and be heroes for everybody who needs it right now.”

The company is doing its part to thank essential workers for their efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.

ERA Reardon Cares put up a $600 tab on Monday at 308 Brass Rail Bar and Grill for essential workers to enjoy a lunch on them. The original amount was $500, but an employee kicked in an additional $100 toward the effort.

On Monday when hospital workers put in a number of orders, ERA Reardon kicked the amount up to $1,000.

Mansfield said this was the first of three in the Jackson area.

“We are hoping that grocery stockers, truck drivers, paramedics, and hospital personnel will take advantage of this,” Mansfield said. “This is the best way we can help out on both fronts.”

Mansfield said real estate companies are allowed to close on deals still in the works.

“We are using virtual technology right now to get through,” Mansfield said. “Over the years we have trended toward paperless technology.”

A couple of employees from ERA Reardon helped deliver the meals from Brass Rail to customers.

308 Brass Rail owner Tom Rooney said his restaurant expected to serve 125 lunches on Monday thanks to the donation.

“They are the heroes in this whole situation,” Rooney said.

Rooney said a number of meals went to floors where coronavirus patients were being taken care of at Henry Ford Allegiance Hospital.

He noted the restaurant has a $3.50 burger special on Wednesday for any front-line employees.

“We like to call it essential burger Wednesday,” Rooney said.

Rooney said a number of individuals have donated money for meals through the restaurant. The company, at 308 W. Prospect in Jackson, can be reached at 517-740-5500.